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Sharat Pradhan in Lucknow
Bahujan Samaj Party legislator from Dhuriapur in Gorakhpur, Jai Prakash Yadav, on Thursday raised the banner of revolt against party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati alleging 'victimisation'.
Yadav, along with Bharatiya Janata Party rebel Ravindra Singh Pundeer, met Governor Vishnukant Shastri and declared his 'loss of faith' in the state government led by Mayawati.
Following this, the BSP suspended Yadav from its primary membership for five years.
"Mayawati is authoritarian and has been ruling the state in a totally arbitrary manner," Yadav told mediapersons after handing over a memorandum to the governor.
His memorandum was a virtual copy of the one that was given to Shastri by 12 BJP legislators last week.
"With the withdrawal of support by several independents and expression of loss of faith by a large number of BJP MLAs in the Maywati government, it has automatically been reduced to a minority", Yadav said. "I have, therefore, appealed to the governor to convene a special session of the state assembly and to direct Mayawati to prove her majority on the floor of the house."
Significantly, Yadav had not attended the meeting of BSP MLAs, convened by Mayawati on Tuesday. "I reached late and by then she had ordered the doors of the meeting hall to be shut. In the meantime, a criminal case was registered against me in Gorakhpur in an obvious bid to harass me, like she was doing with every other legislator who dared to raise his voice against her diktats," he said.
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